force-delete trick.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:25 am

i just figured out a nice new trick.
I had a file that was being a bastard and not letting me delete it, "blah blah, file is being used by another application, blah blah"...
even after a reboot... same error.
even in safe mode... same error.

so i decided to try a new approach.
if you want to force-delete any file do this:

1. open a command prompt
2. open task manager
3. kill the explorer.exe on the processes tab
4. delete offending file from the command prompt
5. go back to task manager's applications tab
6. hit new task, and start explorer.exe
7. owned

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Post by **raw** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:31 am

Yeah, I've been using that trick for some years now

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:33 am

thanks for sharing then bitch.

Post by **Oblivi0.on** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:33 am

yep. because the app that is always using fils is explorer itself. quit the cunt.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:49 am

Sweet, would that work for deleting a NetBus server or other trojans?

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:58 am

ToxicBug wrote:Sweet, would that work for deleting a NetBus server or other trojans?

Not if they're currently running. You'd have to kill the process then hope the trojan in question isn't one that reloads itself in two seconds.

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:45 am

what about if you used partitionmagic to merge partitions and can't delete the folder that contains system volume info from old partition?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:22 pm

You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

Post by **signa** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:34 pm

raw wrote:Yeah, I've been using that trick for some years now

ya that works pretty good. in fact I had just posted that over at raw-one T&T a few days back.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:36 pm

This is the best method I know of for deleting index.dat, also.

you still have to remember the switches for viewing hidden/system files in cmd, tho

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:28 am

wassup foo.

<command> /?

Post by **prince1000** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:28 am

FragaGeddon wrote:You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

no i want the folder gone.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:26 pm

Dr_Watson wrote:wassup foo.

<command> /?

DocWatSunnnnnn!

:lol
echo lol > rofl.txt
goto :lol

Post by **prince1000** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:13 pm

prince1000 wrote:what about if you used partitionmagic to merge partitions and can't delete the folder that contains system volume info from old partition?

anyone have a solution to this?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:15 pm

prince1000 wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html
no i want the folder gone.

It also has delete on boot.